The Dangers of New York City's Radical Sanctuary City Policies: Report

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the House Judiciary Committee and its Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement released an interim staff report titled, "New York City: The Dangerous Consequences of Sanctuary Policies." The report exposes the devastating effects on public safety caused by New York City's sanctuary policies, and how the chief prosecutors for New York City's five boroughs treat illegal aliens differently than American citizens.

In roughly the past year alone, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) received nearly 10,000 detainers and honored zero because of state and local sanctuary policies. From July 1, 2018, through June 30, 2026, the NYPD received 20,255 detainers and did not honor a single one. In the same time period, the New York City Department of Correction received nearly 3,000 detainers and did not honor any of them.

District Attorneys Melinda Katz, Darcel Clark, Alvin Bragg, Eric Gonzalez, and Michael McMahon ensure prosecutors in their offices give preferential treatment to foreign nationals based solely on their immigration status—all so that criminal aliens can avoid deportation and remain in the United States indefinitely.

Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark trains prosecutors in her office to conceal certain facts from the record of conviction and pursue alternative charges so that aliens remain eligible to stay in the United States. Clark's office allows and even encourages the consideration of immigration consequences in cases involving aggravated felonies, crimes against children, domestic violence, strangulation, and firearms offenses. Clark's office encourages its prosecutors to concoct nonexistent, legally impossible charges for foreign national defendants so that they may avoid immigration consequences for their crimes and stay in New York City.

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz urges prosecutors in her office to "exercise extreme caution" in resolving cases involving foreign nationals. Katz's office advises its prosecutors to "not get caught up in the label of [f]elonies, [m]isdemeanors" when considering immigration consequences for criminal alien defendants;

Recently, New York's sanctuary officials expanded the state's already-dangerous sanctuary status by enacting the Local Cops, Local Crimes Act, which prohibits local law enforcement from housing illegal aliens, orderly transferring criminal alien detainees to ICE custody, and entering into ICE cooperation agreements, also known as 287(g) agreements. New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James also announced a statewide Office of Immigrant Trust, a roving enforcement office that is devoted to ensuring that locally elected law enforcement officials obey the state's sanctuary laws and release criminal aliens onto New York streets.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has bolstered New York's protections for criminal aliens at the expense of Americans. Earlier this year, Mayor Mamdani signed an executive order that prohibits ICE from entering New York City schools, shelters, and hospitals without a judicial warrant and enacted additional pro-illegal alien protections.

Even after the American people resoundingly rejected Democrats' pro-illegal alien policies in November 2024, Democrats across the country, including in Socialist-run New York City, reinforced sanctuary policies to ensure that the millions of illegal aliens who entered the U.S. are never removed from the country.

Read the full interim staff report here.

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